- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6102. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title XVI, insert the
following:
SEC. . MODERNIZATION PROGRAM FOR FULL CONTENT INSPECTION.
Section 1515 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 10 U.S.C. 2224 note) is
amended—
(1) in the section heading, by striking “network boundary
and cross-domain defense” and inserting “full content
inspection”;
(2) in subsection (a), in the second sentence, by inserting
“and cross-domain” after “network boundary”;
(3) in subsection (b)(2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A)—
(i) by inserting “specified in subsection (a)” after
“defense capabilities” both places it appears; and
(ii) in clause (ii), by inserting “that support
operational missions as defined by the Department of Defense
Cyber Defense Command” before the period at the end;
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as
subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively;
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new
subparagraph (B):
“(B) By December 1, 2027, integrate the capabilities into
the pilot program described in subparagraph (A) that
leverages, where appropriate, investments in artificial
intelligence to illuminate and actively counter foreign cyber
aggression to Department of Defense networks.”;
(D) in subparagraph (C), as redesignated by subparagraph
(B), by striking “deployment of modernized network boundary
defense capabilities to the access points and cross-domain
capabilities” and inserting “deployment of the same
capabilities described in subsection (a) to the access points
and cross-domain capabilities, and any other network
interconnection point,”; and
(E) in subparagraph (D), as redesignated by subparagraph
(B)—
(i) by striking “modernized network boundary defense
capabilities” and inserting “the same capabilities
described in subsection (a)”; and
(ii) by adding at the end the following new sentence: “To
ensure the coverage of these capabilities is complete, the
Secretary shall, acting through the Director of the Defense
Information Systems Agency and the Chief Information Officer
of the Department of Defense, create a list of remaining
networks and enclaves.”; and
(4) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(d) Semiannual Briefings.—Not less frequently than twice
each year until December 31, 2028, the Chief Information
Officer of the Department of Defense, the Director of the
Defense Information Systems Agency, and the Commander of the
Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command shall jointly
provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing
on—
“(1) the status of deployment of the modernization program
required by subsection (a);
“(2) the results of the surveys conducted pursuant to
subparagraphs (C) and (D) of subsection (b)(2);
“(3) identification of and timeline for the remaining
networks and enclaves to be incorporated into the program;
and
“(4) any reprogramming requests necessary to expedite
completion of the deployment to all remaining networks and
enclaves identified.”.